WAR IN THE SOUDAN.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 306, 28 November 1883, Page 2

WAR IN THE SOUDAN.

Expected Advance 0/ an Anglo-Indian Force. The Porte and the Khedive. Attitude of the French Press(BY ELECTEIO TELEOUA-riL-CDPYBIGHTi (SPECIAL TO UNITB • I'UKSS ASSOCIATION.) London, November 24. The evacution of Cairo by. Sir Evelyn Wood's troops has been postponed, and if El Mahtli advances into Egypt, it. .is , expected that., an Anglo-Indian-force will be brought together to resist him. At present Egypt is m an unsafe condition beyqn&Lthe second cataract. It is considered possible that the Porte may- demand of the Khedive to restore order m the Soudan. The tone of the French Press is jubilant over the disaster m Egypt. ' The European officers commanding the Khedive's forces operating against the. folio were of the Fal^e Prophet were, according tb the Otogo iiaily Titnes : — Commanderin-Chief, Hicks Pasha (Major- geueral Hicks, late of the Bombay staff); staff — Lieutenant-Colonel i the Hon. J. Cpjbome, late major of the 1 ltn Foot ; Lieutehant-Cbloner Coetlageh, late, major of the 70th Foot; "Major ftfartin, Ute esp&ivt of BakerY Horse m South Africa ; Major Farquhar, t late captain of th'e Grenadier Guards; Captain Forextier "Walker, late lieutenant of. the Buffs, or East Kent Regiment ; Captain Massey, late lieutenant . of .the Duke of. Cambridge's Own (Midr .dlesex ; Surgeon-Major Rosenberg', Page. Phillips, arid Mr E. B. Evaus (Intelligence Bepartmerit\ The cavalry was under the . command of Major Martin; the Artillery, with Nordenfeldt" gu,us, under the command of Captain Porestier Walker. - . " '..';'